Re: [orca-list] Structural HTML navigation by lists

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanied gnome org>]

Hey Marcus, all.

> Currently I have implemented menus for all structural objects using the
> structural navigation shortcuts.
>
> Orca+Ctrl+A pop-ups a menu with all anchors
> Orca+Ctrl+Q pop-ups a menu with all blockquotes
> Orca+Ctrl+B pop-ups a menu with all buttons

[snip]

Did you do this through automatic generation, or hard-binding? In other 
words, consider the following two examples:

1. A user decides to change all of the Structural Navigation keybindings 
so that the letters used correspond with the first letter of the element 
name in his/her native language. So, maybe anchors is now T and Shift+T. 
It would be nice if the user didn't have to also rebind all the lists; 
instead Orca+Ctrl+T should automatically just become the binding for a 
list of anchors. (As an aside, such an approach would presumably also 
address the case where users don't want to have bindings for lists of 
structural navigation elements at all. They could just disable the list 
functionality through a single setting and those bindings would never 
come into existence.)

2. A new structural navigation type gets added: Spelling errors. This 
new magical object allows you to jump amongst words flagged as 
misspelled. It would be really cool if -- without any additional code or 
bindings changes -- one could obtain a list of spelling errors in a dialog.

FWIW, back when I was playing with all this myself -- giving up 
(temporarily) due to the speed issue you and Attila mentioned on large 
pages -- I merely had made some minor additions to the structural 
navigation code which made it possible to list any object type. It also 
used the existing 'label guess' code (currently in Gecko, in the process 
of being cleaned up and pulled out of Gecko so any module can use it, 
e.g. Orca's WebKitGtk support) for guessing the labels of unlabeled form 
fields.

Take care.
--joanie